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title: Did the goose just catch a trout and roast it up? — Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and h… · tree and pragmatics
description: Did the goose just catch a trout and roast it up? Test 5 · ★ of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each 
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# Test 5 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavi…

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Did the goose just catch a trout and roast it up?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **What happens:** do, catch, roast up · **To what, where:** goose, trout

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This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1999 «Celtic Fairy Tales, King O'Toole and his Goose: Saint Kavin mends the goose and the king pays with his land» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1999-pg7885-part18/#t5).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1999-pg7885-part18:t5:1
# text = Did the goose just catch a trout and roast it up?
1	Did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	goose	goose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	just	just	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	roast	roast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past |  | the goose |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Eventuality |
| 2 | **catch** | present |  | a trout |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Theme |
| 3 | **roast up** | infinitive |  | trout |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she caught a horse-eel, and the eel killed her

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1999-pg7885-part18:t5:o1:1
# text = Nah, she caught a horse-eel, and the eel killed her
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	killed	kill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | she | a horse eel |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme |
| 2 | **kill** | past | the eel | her *= she* |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she caught a huge horse-eel, and the eel swallowed her whole

<!-- fold The tree, 13 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1999-pg7885-part18:t5:o2:1
# text = Nah, she caught a huge horse-eel, and the eel swallowed her whole
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	eel	eel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | she | a huge horse eel |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eel=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | the eel | eel's whole |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whole=Patient |

### Option 3 {#o3}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she caught a pike and swallowed it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1999-pg7885-part18:t5:o3:1
# text = Nah, she caught a pike and swallowed it
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	pike	pike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | she | a pike |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pike=Theme |
| 2 | **swallow** | past | she *not said here* | pike |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Nah, she caught a trout, but the saint blessed it and it flew away

<!-- fold The tree, 14 words -->
```conllu
# sent_id = question:books:1999-pg7885-part18:t5:o4:1
# text = Nah, she caught a trout, but the saint blessed it and it flew away
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	trout	trout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	blessed	bless	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | she | a trout |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trout=Theme |
| 2 | **bless** | past | the saint | trout |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **fly away** | past | saint |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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